idioms)//Phrases Questions asked in|SSC/CHSI2021 Tier, idioma Phrases EGaiys Hit the books A piece of cake Crocodile tears To hold good It's all Greek to me Pull a long face Bed of roses fish out of water To study very hard An easy task Pretended show of sorrow To remain valid I cannot understand anything To look sad Pleasant condition of life Being uncomfortable and restless Hobson's choice Face up to running around in circles Hale and hearty Strain every nerve Jump the gun Dark horse Be like chalk and cheese green-eyed Charley horse Carry the day White elephant To put someone's back up chip off the old block High spirits Gear up for Call upon Lose your touch At one’s elbow Blow up A fly on the wall In the same boat hair's breadth Grease someone’s palm A storm in a tea cup Tell upon A snake in the grass Tit for tat Win laurels By the skin of one's teeth Safe pair of hands Let down. Hard and fast catch 22 A choice forced upon someone To accept a difficult situation To be very active but with few results Strong and healthy To try extremely hard to do something To do something too soon An unexpected winner Be absolutely different jealous (@ 2ecpreparaliens Cramp winning Costly but useless possession To irritate someone Similar to one's parents in behaviour cheerful Get ready for To order Not being as successful as previously Next to someone To destroy by an explosion An unperceived observer To be in the same difficult situation as someone else narrow margin Bribe someone A lot of anger and worry about trivial things To affect adversely A deceitful person Counter attack To gain honour Barely managed to escape A person who can be trusted to do something efficiently To fail Strict A difficult situation in which the solution to a problem is impossible Scanned with CamScanner57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 Knock down Eat like a horse Beat around the bush Red letter day Read between the lines A kick in the teeth Donkey’s years Go to the wall Under the weather By leaps and bounds Have a long face The best of both worlds Get away Between Scylla and Charybdis Be at a loose end Have a soft spot for someone Pull the plug At loggerheads Playing devil's advocate Back out Comparing apples with oranges Lion’s share Get the axe Wipe the floor with someone To pay lip service Every dog has his day Come about Break a leg Miss the boat On cloud nine Sum and substance Under duress Apple of one’s eye Up in arms Cut straight to the chase Make one’s blood boil (dioms)//Phrases Questions asked |in|SSC/CHSL 2021 Tier) Bo Goa iei: ei To demolish Eat a lot of food To avoid talking about what is important Memorable day Understand something that is not said outright Great disappointment Long time To fail Feeling ill Very quickly Look unhappy or disappointed An advantageous situation from two different things at a time To leave Between two dangers To have nothing to do To like someone a lot End something Disagreeing with One who argues against something just for the sake of arguing To withdraw from Unequal comparisons Largest share Lose the job To defeat someone To express loyalty, respect, or support for something insincerely Everyone has good luck or success at a point of time To happen Wish someone good luck Miss an opportunity Extremely happy Essence Under pressure Very dear In rebellion Avoid unnecessary introduction and go to the more important part to make someone very angry Scanned with CamScannerhard of Beatie Elbow grease Donkey's years make someone's flesh crawl/creep Start from scratch Chip off the old block to bite the bullet Costs an arm and a leg To bite the bullet Call a spade a spade To draw a blank Man of letters Jump the gun In your birthday suit Twist someone's arm Cast aside Tick all the boxes Once in a blue moon Child’s play apple-cart Pocket an insult Be under a cloud Hit the sack In queer street Snail’s pace The movers and shakers Snake in the grass Get one’s dander up partially deaf Hard physical efforts Avery long time to make someone feel disgusted, afraid, frightened Start entirely from the beginning Someone who resembles their parent Force oneself to do something unpleasant too expensive for us to buy To be brave in a difficult situation talking too frankly To be unsuccessful at eliciting a response Scholar Start something too soon or act hastily Not wearing any clothes To try to force someone to do something To reject To fulfil the required norms Very rarely An easy task Spoil careful plans Tolerate insult without protest To be untrustworthy Go to sleep In debt Very slow People who have a lot of power and influence Treacherous person Lose one’s temper (@scqpreparalirne Scanned with CamScannerBN Idle Phra: 1 BOSeer aason 3 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Ce ee Try Pain in the neck Make a bee line follow suit Swim with the tide Come to blows Cost (someone) dearly A house of cards Take pains lose count of see the light of day Have cold feet To be in hot water To be ill at ease Bottom line Be in someone's shoes All ears Flex one’s muscles Full of hot air A piece of cake To raise a few eyebrows In line with A hot potato Once for all Full of beans: On purpose ‘The lion's share Take a toll Learn the ropes More or less On the back burner Fall out with someone Eye wash By and large No love lost Spill the beans Have your back against the wall ‘Someone or something that is very annoying go straight to do the same as others Agree with the popular opinion Start fighting after a disagreement ‘To bring one suffering An insecure situation ‘Try hard forget the accurate total become publicly known Lose confidence To be in a difficult situation in which you can be criticised to feel uncomfortable or worried in a situation ‘The most important fact face the same situation as another person To wait eagerly for some news give or make a show of one’s strength Self-important To be easy To cause surprise or shock In agreement a controversial issue conclusively Lively \ ' deliberately DSSC pt epaaums ‘The largest portion To harm or damage To learn how to do a job or activity approximately To temporarily not deal with some matter because it is not urgent Stop being friendly after an argument A deception On the whole Persons who do not like each other at all To give away a secret To be in a desperate situation with very few options TRE ewe Go back to the drawing board Give someone the cold shoulder Be the devil's advocate A stitch in time saves nine. Go to the dogs Shed light on Hit a brick wall Hold your horses Lock horns Get out of hand Bite off more than you can chew Let the cat out of the bag A dime a dozen Raining cats and dogs Start planning all over again Ignore someone Present counter arguments It is better to solve a problem straight away and not let it become bigger. Be ruined or destroyed To explain a situation Encounter an obstacle Be patient Fight with someone Become difficult to control ‘Take on more work than you can handle Reveal a secret Common and easily available Raining heavily Scanned with CamScanner@secpreparalime | Bloety Odie ay To have an axe to To have a selfish motive in 118 «131 grind doing something 2 Asquare deal A fair and honest deal 115 87 3 Against one’s grain _| Against one’s nature 135 561 4 To rise like a phoenix | To emerge with a new life 151 984 5 To turn the corner To pass the critical stage - - 6 Tohit below the belt | To attack in an unfair 161 1220 manner 7 Keep your head Remain calm 140° (713 8 To read between the | To understand the implied 150 975 lines meaning 9 Fullof hot air Talking nonsense 133° S11 10 To meet one’s Waterloo} To experience defeat - - 11 Not make head or tail } not able to understand 144-796 anything 12 Not mince words To speak in a direct way 145 835 13 To take stock of To assess 165 1303 14 Read between the lines| Discern the hidden 150 975 meaning in the text 15 Wear yourhearton | To show your true emotions 167 1369 your sleeve 16 On tenterhooks Anxious and tense 175115 17 On cloud nine Extremely happy and 157 1133 excited 18 Miss the boat To lose an opportunity 162 1254 19 Don't put all your eggs | Don’t concentrate all your 129° 417 in the same basket | resources in one place Scanned with CamScanner4 woran 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Ge ater To know what's what To rub salt in someone’s wound Flea market through thick and thin moved heaven and earth Out of the blue Full steam ahead cut down on Loaded words Pain in the neck Crack up the lion's share Think on your feet Go through the roof To beat the clock As thick as two short planks Take up room Draw first blood Get out of hand To get wind of Hit the sack give up To spill the beans To take up the gauntlet A cold fish Vanish into thin air Maiden speech A dime a dozen To be on the same page Tickled pink Cool as a cucumber Come to blows Play for time To breathe one’s last Drop names To beat around the bush To break new ground To break into tears EST TeM Ch ery re) 14 y_To know the facts of a situation To make a bad or painful situation worse A place where antiques and second-hand goods are sold in both, good times and bad times did everything possible Unexpectedly Move onward with determination reduce Words that carry more significance than their literal meaning Someone or something that is annoying or a nuisance Laugh out loud the largest part Adjust quickly to changes and make fast decisions Rise very high To perform a task within the time limit Extremely stupid Occupy space Be the first to gain an advantage or score against an opponent Lose control ‘To learn something secret Go to bed ) li stop doing it @ secpmepant aon To give away a secret To accept a challenge An unemotional person Disappear completely First speech Something very common or of little value To agree on something Very pleased Calm Get into a fight physically To make excuses or do things to gain time To die Name famous people to impress others To avoid the main issue To innovate or pioneer To cry suddenly Scanned with CamScanneriestions asked in SSC/GD Constable 202 | GUE Ey epi coher 39 To get out of hand ‘0 become uncontrollable 40 Down in the dumps In a depressed state of mind 41 Blowa fuse ‘0 react very angrily 42 The apple of one’s eye |A person who is very dear 43 All and sundry Everyone 44 Hold your horses Be patient 45 To break loose ‘To escape 46 Big bucks {A lot of money 47 Acan of worms ‘A complicated situation or problem 48 Over and over again Do something repeatedly 49 Worked like a dream 'A plan succeeded perfectly 50 Mark up Increase the price 51 Oncloud nine Very happy 52 Inthe longrun Eventually 53 Chicken hearted Easily scared 54 Wee hours of the day Dawn, 55 Not breathe a word ‘To remain silent about some secret 56 To give up the ghost To stop working 57 To pulla fast one on IT cheat someone coon ccorGiatte 58 To kick the bucket To die Cassepre paia fone 59 Pass the baton shift responsibility to others 60 Keep in touch Maintain contact 61 Wear and tear [Damage caused by use 62 To aim for the stars To set high goals 63 To do the dishes ‘To wash and dry dishes 64 Spick and span Very neat and clean 65 Ata snail’s pace Very slowly 66 Hand in hand \Together 67 Toe the line Follow the rules 68 Elephant in the room An obvious issue left unaddressed due to its sensitivity 69 Hands down Easily and without doubt 70 To take pains To make efforts 71 Child’s play ‘Something that is very easy 72 Gift of the gab [Ability to speak confidently and clearly 73 Blue blood Noble birth 74 Having a soft spot for Being fond of 75 Tobeon pins and needles ||To be in an agitated state of suspense 76 At the eleventh hour At the very last minute 77 To put something on hold |/To postpone something 78 79 Monkey business In the long run Behaviour that is not acceptable or is dishonest Ultimately Scanned with CamScanner80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 oo 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 Feel at sea In the same boat Down in the mouth To take the bull by the horns Ina fix Open-ended Ins and outs See the light of day From far and wide Alive and kicking a blessing in disguise To lose one’s head To take stock of To get out of hand Bite someone’s head off Once in a blue moon A dog’s life To catch someone’s fancy Storm in a teacup To let someone off To blow one’s own horn To go round in circles Raining cats and dogs Between Scylla and Charybdis A fine state of affairs For good Having the gift of the gab On the cards spick and span Come of age To be off the hook Odd man out Out of the blue Hang up one’s boots Drag one’s feet Game is up Dig up dirt on someone To land a job Once and for all Under the weather Cas ete Me er ern en Crys 1 gies Loans To feel lost or confused In a similar situation To be depressed To deal with difficult situations courageously In a difficult situation Having no planned ending Complete facts Become publicly known From all directions Healthy and doing well event that seemed bad at first but resulted in something good later To become upset or angry To think carefully To get out of control Speak angrily without any reason Taking place very rarely A miserable life To appeal to someone Anger or fuss about something trivial To punish someone lightly To praise oneself To waste one's time and energy doing trivial things Vad Rang heavy ©2520 prepara one Choice between two unpleasant alternatives An unpleasant situation Forever Talks well and persuasively Likely to happen neat and tidy Reach maturity To escape a difficult situation Person who doesn't fit into a group Completely unexpectedly Retire from a sport Do something deliberately at a slow pace Deception is at an end Discover damaging information about someone To be hired Finally Slightly ill Scanned with CamScannerdioms)//Phrases Questions asked |in SSCiGD Constable/202, By Story pier: au 120 To have a yen for To have a very strong and continuous desire or craving for something 121 Go with the flow Do what others are doing 122 Out of question Impossible 123 make head or tail of understand 124 To bear fruit To produce positive results 125 Eagle eye ~~An eye with sharp visual powers 126 To lag behind To fail to maintain the pace or progress 127 Lap up Accept eagerly Scanned with CamScannerTo call the shots To make up for To cut corners Under the weather To get cold feet The apple of someone's eyes Once and for all Twist someone’s arm Dry run At a snail’s pace Hang up your boots. In high spirits Get your act together Vanish into thin air Throw caution to the wind Hanging by a thread/a hair Cross a bridge when you come to it Pull yourself together In the same boat The black sheep Hit a dead end Hit the nail on the head Take one's hat off to someone Make a beeline for All ears Bury the hatchet Chill out Raise an alarm Take a cue from someone Hold one’s tongue Dey iirs to replace something that is lost or damaged To save money and economise Not feeling well To become afraid to do something the person that someone loves and is proud of Finally persuade someone to do something To have control Rehearsal of an event very slowly retire from playing a game joyful organise your work in a better way disappear behave in a reckless manner being in a dangerous position deal with something when it happens, and not worry about it beforehand control emotions and behave calmly sharing the same problem one who is not accepted as part of a family or group because of one’s bad conduct reach a situation that leads to nothing further say something that is exactly right show admiration for someone To move directly towards something ready to listen make peace Relax completely warn of a dangerous situation be strongly influenced by someone To keep quiet Scanned with CamScannerSSNS) Idiom Meaning 1 Fair-weather friend A person whose friendship cannot be relied on in difficult times 2 Full of beans Happy and energetic 3 To take pains To make efforts 4 Fifth wheel An unneeded person 5 Make head or tail of To figure out something something 6 Fight tooth and nail Fight very fiercely 7 Hue and cry A noisy expression of anger 8 Ahard nut to crack A difficult person 9 Hold your horses Be patient 10 Give and take Obliging each other mutually Scanned with CamScanneridioms / Phrases [SNeldiomey PHrase: Cent bys 1 Cover up Hide or conceal 2 Make up with (someone) Close or ignore the differences with (someone) 3 He who laughs last laughs || He who focuses on winning in the long term is loudest successful 4 Much ado about nothing | Making a big fuss over a small thing 5 A bolt from the blue Unexpected and surprising event 6 Herculean task Very tough task 7 Break new ground Do or discover something new 8 Sell like hot cakes Sell very fast 9 To get on the nerves To irritate 10 By the same token In the same way 11 Keep someone in the loop Give them all the information 12 Of the old school Old fashioned in thought 13 Over the moon Extremely happy 14 Copycat One who imitates another closely 15 Close to one’s heart Dear and important to oneself 16 Go bonkers Become crazy 17 Turn a deaf ear Ignore what someone says 18 Pull someone up Criticise someone 19 Raining cats and dogs Raining very heavily 20 How time flies! Time seems to move quickly 21 Gooff Stop working 22 Break in Enter a building illegally 23 Babe in the woods A young defenceless person 24 Be allears Eager to listen 25 Change for the better An improvement in the situation 26 Loosen the purse strings || To increase the money available for expenditure 27 To be off your food To have no appetite 28 To go bananas To become very excited or angry 29 Comb through To carefully look through 30 Loudmouth One who talks boastfully 31 Fit asa fiddle To be in excellent health and good working order 32 Elbow grease A lot of physical effort 33. Fly the nest Children leaving their parents’ home to live on their own 34 Your guess is as goodas_ || To have no idea of the answer mine 35 Horses for courses Different people are suited for different jobs 36 Get on like a house on fire | To become friends quickly Scanned with CamScanneridioms )//Phrases Questions asked jin'SSC/MTS 2020) ee 37 Have your heart set on To want something very much something 38 Drop in Pay a casual visit 39 A turning point The time at which an important change starts 40 To be taken aback To be surprised 41 In the eye of the storm Be in a controversial situation 42 Arotten apple A single bad person or thing in a group 43. Giving a false alarm A situation when people wrongly think that something bad is going to happen 44. Alive and kicking To be active and healthy 45. Chinks in t he armour A weakness that can be taken advantage of 46 Hit the ceiling Explode in anger 47 Months on end Several months in a row 48 See eye to eye Agree 49. Be over the moon Very pleased about something 50 Call off Cancel something 51 A piece of the pie A share in money or business 52 Follow suit To do as others have done 53 Put off To delay 54 Carry on Continue doing something 55 Fall for To be tricked or fooled by 56 At beck and call Ready to do everything for someone 57 Bearfrut Produce positive results 58 Tighten one's belt To cut one's expenditure 59 Be Off To go away 60 Bear the brunt Suffer the worst of something 61 Behind closed doors Do something secretly 62 Whet your appetite To want something more 63 Get something off one’s Talk about something that is worrying you chest 64 At loggerheads To disagree strongly 65 Atastretch Without a stop 66 Lean and mean Ready and efficient 67 Keep in check To control something 68 Make out Understand someone or something with difficulty 69 Pick and choose Select only the best from choices 70 To be moved to tears To be overwhelmed with emotion 71 Togain ground __ | To make progress 72 Change hands Pass from one person to another 73 Out of the question Not possible at all 74 Play safe Avoid risks and take precautions 75 Feel the pinch Face financial difficulties 76 Bull’s-eye Something that is the centre of a target 77 Off-colour Feeling slightly ill Scanned with CamScannerBlackbook of English Vocabulary ESE PATEL Ces Oe) Oe sen eee) a Defend or support Exercise or develop a plan Be frank and open about something 79 Work out 80 Make no bones about something 81 To take for granted 82 Togo nuts 83 To be onaroll 84 Many a slip between the cup and the lip To accept without question or objection To become crazy To be experiencing a successful period Bad things may happen before the task is finished Scanned with CamScanner16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Go to the dogs Pull something off Under wraps On tenterhooks fell flat To go red in the face to make up To poke one’s nose into To have eggs on one’s face ‘Thick as thieves Butter fingers Large-hearted To play with fire in vogue without rhyme or reason. To add insult to injury know inside out Hard nut to crack Needle in a haystack A blessing in disguise Cook the books To cut corners Poke one’s nose A fire in someone’s bell, Break the ice Alean patch Rank and file for good. Burn the midnight oil To come round A red letter day A dime a dozen Hang on every word Off and on Deteriorate shockingly Make something happen 407 secretly 136 Very tense 150 failed to have an effect 149 To feel embarrassed to settle their differences 136 To take interest in others’ affairs To be embarrassed because of one’s action Having a close friendship To be clumsy Generous 348 To act in a dangerous and risky 124 way in fashion 117 without a reasonable explanation to make something worse 146 To know something thoroughly 118 a difficult person or problem 143 Something impossible to find 148 something good that isn’t 146 recognised at first To falsify financial records not do a thing well in order to save 107 money or effort Interfere or meddle one who is energetic and enthusiastic about something Make a beginning or start 103 something A period of poor performance Ordinary workers in a company forever 111 work late into the night 133 To become conscious again a memorable day 96 common and so of little value 152 Listen very carefully sometimes but not regularly 122 S11 334 1090 149 126 1106 96 816 613 69 645 105 63 351 239 449 1022 71 187 744 Scanned with CamScanner41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 To fish in troubled To take advantage of a difficult waters situation At a stone’s throw At a very short distance Caught red-handed Caught in the act of doing something illegal To be all ears To be ready and eager to listen a far cry. very distant Living in a fool’s To believe wrongly that your paradise situation is good To put one’s foot in To accidentally embarrass or one’s mouth upset someone rules the roost. is in complete control Not one’s cup of tea Not according to one’s interest To cross one’s mind _ | To think of something Full of beans Happy and energetic kept up appearances _} maintained an expression of well being Method to one’s Seeming disorderly yet having a madness structure Get out of hand To become difficult to control Make big time Attain fame and success In hot water In trouble speaks volumes conveys a great deal Wash your dirty linen in} Discuss private matters in front of public others To run around like a | To do many things in a headless chicken disorganised manner To leave no stone To try everything possible to solve unturned a problem Provide a blueprint Give a detailed plan or scheme Go back to the drawing } start planning again because board earlier plans failed Read between the lines } understand what is implied but not stated directly A good turn A helpful act Be glad to see the back } Be happy when a person leaves of By the skin of one’s By a very narrow margin teeth A sea change Complete transformation cold blood cruelly, without any emotions Cost an arm and aleg | Be extremely expensive Abolt from the blue | something that happens suddenly Get One’s Ducks ina _ | have everything properly organized Row 134 96 105, 132 110 148 126 121 111 117 123 134 128 131 118 134 138 107 100 104 96 116 106 93 996 422 102 870 735, 456 630 779 1050 906 993 658 1057 1132 368 187 274 75 588 332 Scanned with CamScannerConey 2eeCE 66 Child’s play Something that is very easy todo 93 16 67 To be in the dark to not know something others are 116 598 aware of 68 A grey area An unclear situation 69 To drag one’s feet To delay taking a decision 108 384 70 To make both ends meet] To have just enough money to live 136 1102 71 Getting butterflies in | To be anxious and nervous 103 263 one's stomach 72 A Herculean task A task requiring great effort 115 553 Scanned with CamScannerLittle by little Adry run Call on Look out Give a hand Bear the brunt of The sword of Damocles Tide over Through thick and thin Kick up a row Pocket an insult Make one’s mark Kith and kin Rise to the occasion Strike when the iron is hot To take stock of Apple of discord High time ‘Make up one’s mind Sitting on a gold mine Snake in the grass Egg on Through and through Abird’s eye view Get your money's worth gradually a rehearsal visit be careful assist bear the maximum fury an impending threat to overcome under all circumstances cause a disturbance bear an insult quietly attain recognition family relations show you can deal with a situation successfully grab a favourable opportunity promptly to assess a situation something that causes friction past the appropriate time to decide to own something potentially valuable a deceitful person encourage completely a cursory look to pay and get something of good value Scanned with CamScanner11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Cet yaa Eat one's words Rose-coloured glasses On the spur of the moment One track mind On the double Over one’s head A fair weather friend Breath of fresh air Take exception like a fish out of water by leaps and bounds a nine days’ wonder cast a slur upon brought to book lay our heads together up to the mark a cry in the wilderness spread like wild fire Do a good turn Blow one’s own trumpet Far and wide Carry the day Eye-wash Cry over spilt milk First and foremost Apple of one’s eye Behind one’s back retract what one has said a positive outlook on life acting impulsively without thinking always thinking of only one thing at a fast pace beyond one’s capability to understand something an unreliable friend someone or something new and refreshing object to uncomfortable and restless at a rapid pace a short-lived sensation damaged held accountable work in consultation up to the required standard an unheeded warning spread rapidly Render a service Praise oneself In all directions Win a victory A deception To regret uselessly Most important aspect Very dear In one’s absence Scanned with CamScannerzg eevausunal SRREGS QGRREBKRESRBN R RREBRERBSE 8 with open arms Off and on took heart looking for a needle in a haystack got the green light Up in arms Left out in cold Handle with kid gloves Run around in circles Work against the clock Bed of roses Al the drop of a hat Make a beeline for Till the cows come home Touch and got above board atsea made off in the teeth of a close shave. fell flat for good. carried the day to die in harness too many irons in the fire make a dent in make a clean breast of it Come rain or shine To be thrown in at the deep end getting out of hand To read between the lines To blaze a trail A dark horse To make castles in the air Of the first water Be left in the lurch the last straw to steal her brother's thunder through thick and thin Go down in flames Warmly Periodically Gathered courage Doing something impossible Got permission to go ahead with something tobe angry tobe ignored to treat someone with extreme care to keep doing something without achieving much work in great hurry Anenjoyable state Instantly Go straight to Fora long, long time Uncertain honest and frank confused ran away wi in direct opposition to a narrow escape failed to make an impact forever won a victory to continue occupation till death She was involved in many activities to reduce an amount of something, esp. money or work confessed his crime whatever happens Jean to do the difficult things too soon notin control anymore to understand the implied meaning to initiate something new an unknown genius to create impossible dreams or hopes of the best quality be deserted when one is in trouble final irritant that made the situation unbearable get more recognition than her brother for their success in times of good and bad fortune fail completely Scanned with CamScanner18 19 20 21 2 23 4 26 7 28 29 30 31 32 33 35 36 Hele MIG CMe HI) (OV — To take French leave A hard nut to crack A snake in the grass On shank’s mare Blow one's own trumpet Spill the beans Back to square one Dead heat The bee's knees To throw a fit Bring to light Hold water Abed of roses A close-fisted person To take the bull by the horns To flog a dead horse To add fuel to the fire Hobson's Choice Chicken-hearted By and By Pull a fast one See eye to eye To paddle one’s own canoe Like a dying duck in a thunderstorm Look down upon Keep abreast of ‘Come to the point Give a piece of one’s mind ‘Cut and dried at large Kill two birds with one stone Make off with Blind alley The acid test To take a back seat To bark up the wrong tree aie Leave without any intimation A difficult problem A secret enemy ‘On foot Praise oneself Give away a secret Come to the original point Close contest that ends ina tie Extraordinary Express extreme anger Reveal clearly Tobe valid Aneasy and happy situation A miserly person ‘To handle difficulties To waste the efforts To make a bad situation worse An apparently free choice where there is no real alternative Cowardly Gradually Trick someone Agree with someone Depend on oneself Dejected To consider someone inferior Keep oneself updated To speak plainly about the real issue To rebuke someone strongly Already decided not caught To achieve two results with a single effort To run away A situation in which no further progress can be made A fact, event or situation that proves something ‘To become less important or to give up control over things To do something that will not get the result you want Scanned with CamScanner4 ora © 10 12 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Adime a dozen A piece of cake Actions speak louder than words Add insult to injury omething easy B-54 hat you do reveals the real you B-6 ake a bad situation even worse B-59 Back in saddle Be behind the times Behind the scenes Bite off more than one can chew Call a spade a spade esume duty e old fashioned inknown to everyone ‘o take on more than one can B-12 jay the truth about something, B-40 ven if it is not pleasant Cash-strapped Chill out Come hell or high water [iin spite of any obstacles B-15 Cool it Couch Potato Cross that bridge Cut to the chase ‘0 relax person B-55 Solve the problem B-16 ‘alking about the important point B-17 nd leaving out the detail Down-to-earth ractical and direct B-39 Eat humble pic dmit that you are wrong B-41 Every cloud has a silver Something promising is there in B-18 lining y difficult situation Falling head over heels ‘Falling deeply in love with B-23 someone Fit as a fiddle Healthy and strong B8 Flying off the handle —_ Suddenly becoming enraged Full of sound and fury Merely loud and angry words but ineffective Express something that has been orrying you, and you want to say Get something off your chest ‘Learn how to use Change the subject immediately B-20 Get the hang of Go off at a tangent Hats off to Ina fog In the blink of an eye Congratulations to B-36 Confused and dazed thin a very short period of time e situation had become B-57 junbearable It was the last straw 213 949 299 104 320 340 927 964 383 518 133 419 872 143 Scanned with CamScanner32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 Cioehy) Jump on the bandwagon Jumped the gun Keep a civil tongue Keep up appearances Keep your shirt on Kept a stiff upper lip Let off the hook Like talking to a brick wall Look after Look before you leap Looking for a needle in haystack. Looking for greener pastures Made out of whole cloth Make a beeline Neither fish nor fowl Not mince (your) words Old hand Once in a blue moon Out of bounds Parthian shot Plain as day Pull up his socks Pull yourself together Received a new lease of life Reinventing the wheel Rub the wrong way Sleep on it Stir up a hornet’s nest Get involved in an activity ecause it is likely to succeed cted hastily Speak with great politeness ‘o pretend to be happier or richer iso as to conceal the real situation ‘0 remain cool Remained expressionless lowed to escape from blame Inattentive ‘ake care of hink carefully of the onsequences tempting something impossible Exploring new opportunities Entirely false and fabricated Go straight to ‘Something which can neither be ategorized easily nor be accepted befittingly State your opinion clearly Experienced Happening only rarely ery obvious and easy to nderstand jake a greater effort to improve Regain composure Became energetic again fasting one’s time for things that have already been satisfactorily lone nnoy someone ’ wait before making a decision Provoke trouble B-43 B-28 B-29 B-32 B-33 B-21 B-34 B-36 1008 696 290 59 650 688 753 772 773 453 804 855 Scanned with CamScanneri cto: Hau 3 59 Take one's hat off to how admiration B-37 someone 60 Take something with a [To believe only part of something B-37 pinch of salt 61 Take the heat eceive criticism 62 The big fish jain leaders 63 The straw that broke ‘0 be the last in a series of events the camel’s back leading one to feel that it is intolerable 64 To cost an arm and a leg|Very expensive B-52 65 To fall on deaf ears ‘o be ignored. B-46 66 To have a gut feeling ‘o feel an instinct or intuition B-22 67 To leave someone in the [To desert someone in his B-53 lurch. ifficulties 68 Touch all bases include everything 69 Under the weather ‘0 be in low spirits B-39 70 Upinarms ngry about something B-47 71 Upset someone's joing something that fails B48 applecart omeone’s plan 72 Vanish into the air ‘ompletely disappear C-37 872 876 49 1094 492 72 935 1125 1127 926 Scanned with CamScannerBe eevaaeon a BSaBVaantan RREBBR SRRLBRESBRY fhe Piper. pit with open arms Off and on. took heart looking for a needle in a haystack got the green light Up in arms Left out in cold Handle with kid gloves Run around in circles Work against the clock Bed of roses At the drop of a hat Make a beeline for Till the cows come home Touch and got above board atsea made off in the teeth of a close shave. fell lat for good. carried the day to die in harness too many irons in the fire make a dent in make a clean breast of it Come rain or shine To be thrown in at the deep end getting out of hand To read between the lines To blaze a trail A dark horse To make castles in the air Of the first water Be left in the lurch the last straw to steal her brother's thunder through thick and thin Go down in flames Warmly Periodically Gathered courage Doing something impossible Got permission to go ahead with something tobe angry to be ignored to treat someone with extreme care to keep doing something without achieving much work in great hurry An enjoyable state Instantly Go straight to For along, long time Uncertain honest and frank confused ran away with in direct opposition to anarrow escape failed to make an impact forever won a victory to continue occupation till death She was involved in many activities to reduce an amount of something, esp. money or work confessed his crime whatever happens earn to do the difficult things too soon not in control anymore to understand the implied meaning to initiate something new an unknown genius to create impossible dreams or hopes of the best quality be deserted when one is in trouble final irritant that made the situation unbearable get more recognition than her brother for their success in times of good and bad fortune fail completely Scanned with CamScanner